Ordination of first UMC pastors in Senegal

Ordination of first UMC pastors in Senegal
Dakar, July 6, 2007
The United Methodist
Church in Senegal has
obtained his first ordained
ministers on Saturday,
June 17, 2007. Ordination
service was cond ucted by
Bishop Benjamin Boni,
Resident Bishop of the
Cote
d’Ivoire
Annual
Conference w ho is also the
supervisor of the Senegal
M ission of G BGM. Names
of these new ordained
pastors are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Antoine Ndecky
Dembo Diatta
Dibor
Fatou
Ndour
(Femal e)
Jean Pierre Ndour
Jerome Ba ko
Joseph Bleck
Leon Mbu Kitete
Valentin Iloga Bayemon
UMC
Senegal
after
viewing his ordinat ion
documents a nd transfer.
Therefore the Senegal
Mission has now nine
ordained ministers out of
the Rev. Nkemba Ndjungu ,
the Mission Superintendent.
It is important to stress that
among these new ordained
pastors, one is a female:
Dibor Fatou Ndour. She is
the first Se negalese woman
to be ever ordained as a
pastor. The Senegalese
society is making lot of
effort to promote women the P rime Minister in 2003
was a woman - but never a
woman has been ordained
a clergy before. We praise
the Lord for that.
From the le f t to the right : « Dembo DIATTA, Joseph B LECK,
Antoine NDECKY, Jean Pierre NDOUR,
Dibor Fatou NDOUR,
Jean Noël DIOUF, Bishop Benjamin BONI, Léon Mbu KITETE,
Mission surintende nt Nkemba NDJ UNGU, Valentin Bayemon
ILOGA, and Jérôme BAK O ».
Before ordination service
these new pastors were
interviewed by a Special
Board for Ordination in
Senegal
presided
by
Bishop Boni himself. Th e
other members of this
special
board
for
ordination were:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Rev Isaac Agree (Cote
d’Ivoire)
Rev.
Philippe
Adjobi
(Cote d’Ivoire)
Dr.
Patrick
Friday
(GBGM -USA)
Dr.
Ellis
Larsen
(GBHEM -USA)
Dr.
William
Lowel
(GBHEM -USA)
Rev. Nkemba Ndjungu
(Mission Superi ntendent
of Senegal)
All Mission gifts to be sent
to the Advance Number s:
-
12594A:
Initiative
14518A:
Construction
14519N:
Educati on
14520A:
Development
Senegal
Church
Christian
Church
Nkemba & Mbwizu Ndjungu
Eglise Methodist e Unie
BP 15487 Dakar -F ann
Senegal
Another pastor , Jean Noel
Diouf , a Senegalese who
was ordained in the
M ethodist Church of
Ghana in 2005 by Bishop
Nuh Ben Abubekr of the
Kumasi D iocese, was
received as an elder in the
Three other local pastors
were
approved
for
ordination next year. Those
are :
1.
2.
3.
Emmanuel Diouf
Etienne Djilene Dione
Gabriel S. Wenda